Usually means: Traditional ceremonial commitment or marriage.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word handfasting:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. handfasting: Merriam-Webster
  2. handfasting: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Handfasting, handfasting: Wordnik
  4. handfasting: Wiktionary
  5. handfasting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. Handfasting: Dictionary.com
  7. Handfasting (Great Britain and Ireland), Handfasting (Neopaganism), Handfasting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Handfasting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Handfasting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. handfasting: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. Handfasting: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  12. handfasting: FreeDictionary.org
  13. handfasting: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. Handfasting: World Wide Words

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Handfasting: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (handfasting)

▸ noun:  The ceremony in which people handfast.

Similar:
fastinge, fastgang, fast, fastness, faith supper, brofist, first footing, fapstinence, fist-fight, fapfest, more...

Opposite:
divorce, separation, split-up, untying

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Similar:
fastinge, fastgang, fast, fastness, faith supper, brofist, first footing, fapstinence, fist-fight, fapfest, more...

Opposite:
divorce, separation, split-up, untying



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